H.E. Radek Vondráček, The Chairman of the Chamber of Deputies, Parliament of the Czech Republic became CBC HONORARY MEMBER !!

Hot news : MOU signed between CBC and Czech Trade till 2020

Radomil Dolezal, General Director of Czech Trade Promotion Agency,
and Pavel Foubik, President of CBC, signed a Memorandum of Cooperation that binds both parties to create
a platform supporting Czech export to the UAE within 2017-2020 time frame. In their joint effort CBC and Czech Trade
will create potential for new business opportunities for Czech entities in the UAE and assist new businesses
with market entry.

Jiri Havlicek, Minister of Industry and Trade, who was also present at signing MoC stressed that the Ministry of Industry and Trade will grant its unwavering support to this cooperation and expects that it will massively contribute to increasing participation of Czech companies in Expo2020.

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Dear members and friends of CBC,

This year is coming to an end, Christmas is knocking on our doors and so is our regular CBC session!
It is my great pleasure to invite you to our Christmas CBC meeting that will be held on 21 November, 7:00pm, at Hilton Hotel JBR.
Our 12th gathering will be spiced up by very special guests, traditional lucky draw of Emirates tickets, test drive of a new model of Skoda Car, sweet surprise by Prague Chocolate and many more valuable gifts and last, but not least, by participation of six new CBC members, strong Czech companies that are entering the Middle East market based on contracts totalling 50 mil EUR! It is with extreme pleasure that we can introduce these companies and welcome them to our club.
We will also present you news and unprecedented opportunities arising for Czech companies from EXPO2020. Official representatives of EXPO2020 who will also participate in our meeting will give you behind-the-scene information themselves.
After the official program we would like to invite you to a dinner in the gardens of Hilton Hotel JBR that will be accompanied by great selection of fine drinks.
You will find the invitation with detailed program attached to this email.
Please confirm your participation by 15 November at info@cbcdubai.cz.
We are looking forward to meeting you!

best regards

Dr.Pavel Foubik
President
Czech Business Council Dubai and Northern Emirates

GITEX 16.-20.10.2016

CBC is honored to partner up with the Embassy of the Czech Republic in Abu Dhabi and CzechTrade to support Czech companies participating in GITEX Technology Week 2016.
If you want to meet all participants from the Czech Republic and build up your network, don't forget to sign up for the networking event on October 18th!
More info here

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With no doubt Expo 2020 will be the most important event in the history of the UAE. It will be a celebration of countries and other participants, which showcase the best they can offer to the World. Therefore, Czech Business Council in Dubai actively follows the agenda related to the organization and preparation for this event, attend various meetings and workshops and regularly share information with Czech exporters interested in participation on Expo 2020.

In order to promote the topic of Expo 2020, Czech Business Council in cooperation with CzechTrade (governmental agency for support of exporters) organized a seminar for Czech exporters interested in expansion of their business activities to Dubai. The seminar has held at the Ministry of Trade and Industry on Tuesday 19th April, 2016 and attended by more than 40 companies. In his opening speach, Dr. Michal Nedelka - new director of the CzechTrade office in Dubai - introduced possibilities and services that the agency offers to the Czech exporters in the region. Vice President of the Czech Business Council, Mr. Ondrej Soska, introduced Dubai as the business hub of the MENASA region and presented business opportunities for the Czech companies related to the preparation of Expo 2020. He also introduced the eSource on-line procurement portal and invite the participants to register their companies in order to participate on various tenders.

The seminar was organized as a follow-up event to the formal interviews with Expo 2020 Bureau and Dubai South held during the visit of H.E. Jiri Havlicek, First Deputy Minister of Trade and Industry, in January 2016. The next seminar for Czech companies is scheduled towards autumn 2016 and will provide more details on opened tenders and upcoming projects.

CBC was honored to host a joint delegation of Ministry of Industry and Trade and Ministry of Health of the Czech Republic who came to Dubai 25.1. - 26.1. 2016 to support booming cooperation between the Czech Republic and the UAE on key projects in Dubai.The delegation visited Dubai South project, Dubai Bone and Joint Center, had meetings with key representatives of Expo 2020 and participated in Arab Health Fair 2016.We hope this visit has further opened doors for Czech companies to take part in tenders in the UAE and vice versa for the UAE companies to increase their presence in the Czech Republic.

H.E. Mr. Jan Mladek, Minister for Industry and Trade of the Czech Republic, became a Honorary Member of Czech Business Council!

Dear CBC Members

CBC as member of Dubai Chamber of Commerce & Industry is pleased to inform you that we will be receiving a delegation of Czech businessmen led by H.E. Jan Mladek, Minister of Industry & Trade of the Czech Republic.

On the occasion of this visit, Dubai Chamber, in partnership with the Embassy of the Czech Republic in the UAE and the Czech Chamber of Commerce, would like to offer Czech and UAE based businessmen a platform to network and explore possible partnership opportunities. We are therefore pleased to invite you to join the UAE-Czech Business Networking Seminar on the 3rd November 2015 from 09.00 to 11.30am at our premises.

Please find attached the programme of the Seminar as well as a list of companies that will be joining the Czech delegation for your kind reference.

On 22 October 2015 held the first meeting of representatives of the Czech Business Council and the Iranian Business Council.

At the meeting the Czech side was represented by Pavel Foubik president CBC and Ondrej Soska, Vice - President CBC and Roman Misek director of CzechTrade Dubai. Under the Iranian side of the Business Council was attended by Mr. Hadi Motameni, IBC president, Mr.Abbas Bolurfrushan Co founder and Ex-President IBC and two other members of the board.
The aim of this meeting was to use the position of CBC between partner agencies to establish new business connections. They were discussing the possibilities within the expected opportunities EXPO by 2020.

Mr. Hadi M welcomed and supported the interest of Czech companies on the Iranian market and the development of mutual trade relations. Another specific meeting between the two sides will be held within the exhibition BIG 5, which will be attended council exhibitors both countries. We expect the meeting 15 companies from each of the partners, will be held during the fair, the place and time of the meeting will be duly informed.
If you are interested in participating in the CBC - IBC networking seminar, please write to info@cbcdubai.cz.

While in Milan Pavel Foubik and Ondrej Soska from CBC brought the trade mission of Dubai Chamber to Czech Pavillion where we all met with general commissioner for the Czech Participation at EXPO 2015 Jiri F. Potuznik. While having fruitful discussions over delicious Czech food and drinks we realized that as of yesterday EXPO 2020 in Dubai would start exactly in 5 years. A reason to celebrate!

We were so impressed by the warm welcome we received that we decided to invite Mr. Potuznik to our upcoming session on the occasion of the visit of the Czech Minister of Industry and Trade to Dubai.

7th meeting of CBC and the first one after the summer break saw more than 40 members and guests in attendance.

Opening speech was held by His Excellency Alexandr Sporys, Ambassador of the Czech Republic to the UAE, who updated all participants on news from his office in Abu Dhabi. CBC President, Pavel Foubik, introduced new partnerships that CBC has just closed. Our newest partner is Noor Bank whose representatives introduced their products to CBC members.

“CBC also pursues intensive negotiations with Emirates Airline whose outcome will be released soon”, Foubik informed.

Next block was dedicated to EXPO2015 in Milan where Dubai Chamber sends its official delegation and CBC will take part in it!

We kept riding the Expo wave with information on Expo 2020 that will take place in Dubai. “The Czech Republic was always very active at Expo exhibitons in the past so we hope that 2020 will not be an exception. We in CBC will do all we can to help Czech Republic leave the best impression again”, concluded Ondrej Soska, vicepresident of CBC.

Dr. Roman Misek as Head of Czech Trade office in Dubai informed about continues support from CZECH TRADE to Czech companies exporting to UAE especially during Czech Trade participation on BIG FIVE in November 2015 with largest exhibition area representing Czech Republic in history of that venue.

The meeting was summed up by update on our networking activities with other Business Councils, such as Dutch and Swiss and newly established Czech and Slovak Association in UAE of which CBC is a partner.

Final words belonged to Pavel Foubik who invited all participants to our next session that will take place on October 26th in Abu Dhabi.

Dubai, September 15th 2015
CBC President: Czech exporters based in the UAE focus on Iranian market

As never before, Iran is going through an unprecedented boom. The reason behind is obvious – on July 14th 2015, after 10 years of sanctions, the world’s biggest economies agreed on the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action on Iran's nuclear programme and lifted the sanctions.

Thus, up-to-date situation on the Iranian market and its future were the key issues discussed at the meeting with the Iranian committee at German-Iranian Chamber of Industry and Commerce where CBC sent its representtives to take on active role in the meeting.

„As the sanctions are gradually lifted the hopes are high. A whole new market is opening that is with its 80 million people as big as Germany and is the 19th biggest economy in the world,“ said Pavel Foubik, CBC President, after the meeting. Potential growth of GDP is enormous – the latest estimate is 2.5 % for 2015 and 6 % for 2017. „In line with export strategy of the Czech Republic based on export diversification, Iran will become one of new target countries for Czech exporters,“ Foubik estimates.

To enter the Iranian market could be a challenge. The best way is through a local partner as it is already a common practice. At the meeting, the specifics were presented by Mazdak Rafaty, Iranian Committee chairman. Exchange rates and currency issues were explained by dr. Ali Hasanzadech from Iranian Central Bank and Babak Namazi from Amereller Legal Consultants talked about legislative frame for doing business with Iranian companies. Tim Latif, member of the Board of German-Iranian Chamber of Industry and Commerce, summed up the meeting with presentation on investment options.

„CBC members show a very strong interest in Iran. Being located in Dubai our members have an easy access to Iranian market. On behalf of CBC I’m granting our support to Czech exporters in cooperation with Dubai Chamber and other economic bodies to help them launch their business in Iran“ declares Foubik.

Czech Business Council grants its support to „Czech Days in the UAE” to be held in October 2015 by Czech Top 100 association. The Czech Days in the UAE event was officially presented by Jan Struz, president of Czech Top 100 association, at the press conference in Prague on June 17th. Pavel Foubik, president of CBC, was among speakers at the conference outlining CBC mission and acitivites. “We are proud that we can participate in this project and support it,” Pavel Foubik concluded.

Mutual cooperation on activities of Czech Business Council in Dubai is the key topic of the Memorandum signed by representatives of Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Czech Republic, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic, Czech Trade agency and Czech Business Council represented by Pavel Foubík, CBC President, on May 19th 2015.

Thus, by signing the Memorandum CBC continues pursuing its goals such as granting support to new companies entering the UAE market and developing relations between the Czech Republic and the UAE.

Czech Business Council (CBC), a member of Dubai Chamber, was one of the tens OF participants of the 1st Business Group & Business Council Round Table Discussion at Dubai Chamber.

In his speech, Pavel Foubik, the president of CBC, expressed his gratitude to representatives of Dubai Chamber for their support and engagement in the recent UAE trade mission to the Czech Republic that Dubai Chamber helped coordinate along with CBC.

Dear CBC members, with a great pride we would like to inform you that we have reached a milestone in the history of Czech Business Council.
On April 21st Czech Business Council was officially registered with Dubai Chamber, thus we became its 46th member.

Representatives of theCzechBusiness Council inDubai participated inworking lunchwith Presidentof the Czech RepublicMilos Zeman,on the occasion ofhis official visit tothe United Arab EmiratesonFebruary 13, 2015at 12:30pm in thepresidential suiteat theEmiratesPalace,AbuDhabi.The topics were activities of Czech Business Council and the real stories ofbusiness people and Czech residents long-actingin the UAE.